Social Justice in Education

Social justice is the idea of creating an environment that is based on equality, that understands and respects human rights, and that recognizes the dignity of every human being. What is a teacher's role in teaching social justice in education? In my opinion, teachers have the biggest responsibility and role in social justice in education. It is their responsibility to enforce the students to use social justice in the classroom as well in the student's lives. Teachers need to teach and stress that everyone must have respect for everyone's values and opinions on politics, religion, culture, etc. Administrators and the higher up people in the school systems number one priority is giving curriculum that is fair for both teachers and students including keeping social justice in effect. 


Although teachers are the ones with the main role in enforcing social justice in schools, everyone including school officials, administrators and students need to practice social justice in education and make sure that it is top on the priority list in education in schools. I believe that the main way to teach social justice is to start at a young age and allow the students to have opinions about different subjects, current events, values, religion, and politics but teach them how to express their opinions and views with respect. As teachers we need to explain and show that people in this world won't respect your opinion or values, and we need to teach them that we need to ignore these people who don't have respect for others and teach them how to live in a world where these people exist. We also need to teach them how not to be disrespectful so we can make the world a better place to be in where more people have respect for one another.